The sea is painted in her eyes <br />And sand is sprinkled on her skin <br />Her waves of hair so soft to touch <br />Her mouth a cave they wisp within. <br /> <br />Her body lithe as leopard limbs <br />Whose spots adorn her cape of hope <br />Her arms that wrap like swaying grass <br />Her style and grace of antelope. <br /> <br />The broken skies show fickle winds <br />That warn of rains as thunder forms <br />And when her lightning spears the night <br />It drowns the plains in ocean storms. <br /> <br />But wrecking cliffs are turned to roosts <br />Soothed by the calm of summer lulls <br />And love so warm it dries you out <br />And lifts you with the wings of gulls. <br /> <br />(1988-1996)<br /><br />Charles Wiles<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/african-beauty-best-love-poems/
